August 18, 1900

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Features

Departments

Departments

The Entrance to the Mississippi River

Economies of Superheated Steam in the Steam Turbine

Chinese Artillery and the Present Crisis

A Suggestion as to Street Signs

Tool Steel at the Bethlehem Steel Works

The Leading Railway Systems of the United States

Telegraph Line in Germany

New form of Cellulose

Death of De Witt Clinton Haskin

Caviar

Irrigating the Sugar Plantations of Hawaii

International Mining Congress

The Marsh Motor Cycle

A Curious Case of Skin-Shedding

New Form of Electric Automobile

The Most Powerful Locomotive Ever Built

The Manufacture of Mechanical Rubber Goods

Correspondence

The Use of Harmonic Vibrations in Weighing

Palace of Hungary at the Exposition

Some Pacific Jellyfishes

White Indians of New Mexico

Recently Patented Inventions

New Books, Etc.

Index of Inventions

Business and Personal

To Inventors

Notes and Queries

Patents

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